Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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The operation of a distributed economy (an economy of wide ownership) can be studied historically by looking at the economy built under the influence of the Catholic Church over the course of the Middle Ages and hence may be useful to consider if we wish to recover a distributed economy in our time. Hilaire Belloc describes the gradual abandonment of slavery and the transformation of the Roman villa system into a society of wide economic freedom and dynamism by the end of the Middle Ages.

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